5'3" x 24' Kazak Runner Rug | Red Field with Ivory Border | Hand-Knotted Wool, Brand New

This is a genuinely unusual piece: a hand-knotted wool runner that measures 5'3" x 24', wide enough to read as a narrow room-size rug and long enough to carry an entire corridor from one end to the other. The weave is firm and even, the pile is dense sheep's wool on a cotton foundation, and the sides and ends are finished by hand. Runners of this length are woven to order rather than stocked, which is why an unused 24 foot example in perfect condition rarely surfaces. It ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is 100% hand-knotted, with the exact size, materials and origin recorded. For a long entry hall, a gallery landing or a double staircase corridor, this is the kind of piece that solves a problem no standard size can, and it belongs among hallway runner rugs at the top of the length range.

Design and Motifs

The field runs an alternating rhythm rather than a single centered medallion, which is the correct choice for a 24 foot length. Paired serrated diamond medallions with latch hook edges sit side by side, then a single round rosette medallion with an ivory ground and a small quatrefoil center falls on the center line, then the pair repeats. Between them, ivory cloud band scrolls curl outward around stepped arrowhead motifs, and small candelabra forms with budded tips branch off slender vines toward the border. Every line is drawn straight or stepped, with no curved floral work anywhere, the hallmark of Kazak drawing. The main ivory border carries a march of 8 point star rosettes and split palmettes alternating with a hooked motif that reads almost like a stylized letter, flanked by narrow sage green guard stripes and a fine navy outline that keeps the whole composition contained.

The Red, Navy, Green and Ivory Palette

The field is a deep tomato red with a slight tonal movement across the width, the natural result of hand-spun wool taking dye at marginally different rates from batch to batch. Against it, the medallions read in a dark inky navy with concentric sky blue outlines, and their centers open into soft sage and olive green with small gold and ivory hearts. The cloud bands and arrowheads are undyed ivory to warm cream, and the same cream carries the wide main border, where the rosettes alternate between navy, mid blue, brick red and a muted green. The close-up photograph shows how many individual tones are actually in play: pale celadon, denim blue, rose red and a warm sand, all of them sitting quietly under the dominant red and ivory. It is a warm, saturated palette with enough ivory to keep a narrow hallway from feeling dark.

Kazak Weaving in Pakistan

The Kazak design tradition comes out of the southern Caucasus, and it survives today in the workshops around Peshawar and Lahore, where weavers reproduce the old geometric repertoire on the classic ghiordes knot with hand-spun highland wool. That wool is the point: it is high in lanolin, it takes dye with real depth, and it wears in rather than wearing out, which matters enormously on a runner that will take daily foot traffic down its whole length. This is a serious modern Oriental rug rather than a decorative copy, hand-knotted row by row on a cotton warp, with the loom kept under tension for months to hold a 24 foot length true and straight. Laid flat, it tracks square from end to end, and the pile depth is consistent across all 288 inches.